I agree, Saibal, but we don't really need to have an actual creature living and breathing creature; any simulation of an 'elephant' will do. All that matters is that the resources that support the 'creature' are verifiable in multiple independent ways.
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 8:23 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > They exist if there is a consistent description of them. Even within > conventional physics there is room for that, as discussed recently on this > list. In the MWI or in eternal inflation models, everything that is not > strictly forbidden by the conservation laws will happen. > > Flying pink elephants can e.g. exist on planets with an extemely dense > atmosphere, there was a NGC documentary a few years ago about this topic, > it was suggested that you could have flying whales on such planets. > > Saibal > > Citeren Bruno Marchal <[email protected]>: > > >> On 08 Jun 2013, at 07:41, Stephen Paul King wrote: >> >> " If you believe that a flying pink elephant is pink, must you believe >>> a flying pink elephant exists?" >>> >>> Yes, at least for the chap that holds the belief and the belief is true >>> (ala Bruno). >>> >> >> Right, but like I said, I believe also that flying pink elephant are not >> pink. And so I can easily prove that flying pink elephant does not exist, >> as far as I am consistent. >> >> Bruno >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:15 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 6/7/2013 4:00 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: >>> >>>> Yes, if there was a text of this it would be nice... I found this: >>>> http://plato.stanford.edu/**entries/fictionalism-**mathematics/<http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fictionalism-mathematics/> >>>> >>> >>> A fictionalist account holds that some things are fictional, i.e. don't >>> exist even though their complete description is self- consistent. >>> Everythingists apparently reject this idea. Platonists seem to equate >>> 'true' with 'exists'. If you believe 17 is prime you must believe 17 >>> exists. I think this is wrong. 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